Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German submarine shelled the Island of Aruba for the second time but failed to damage the world's largest oil refinery. The U-boat was believed to have been sunk by bombers which sped to the attack...
Cornell was setting the pace 37 to 28, in the second half when the Crimson put in its bid for victory Ed Buckley and Art Scully sunk two field goals to put the team within five points of the leaders before Bill Stewart sank a free throw...
...every ton of U.S. shipping sunk by submarines off the Atlantic coast since January 1, U.S. shipyards have launched six tons. The score: 5 tankers and 2 cargo ships sunk, 4 tankers and 22 cargo ships launched...
...staggered waveringly into his room, his senses dead, his mind a buzzing, clattering chaos of emptiness. Somewhere ahead in the vague, formless distance a chair loomed up, sunk out of sight, bobbed up again, and finally disappeared. As he was subconsciously wondering where it had gone, the Vagabond felt something hard and unyielding below him; looking down, he made out the dim outlines of the chair, its arms surrounding him familiarly. That's where it is, his mind said to itself automatically, and as the walls bowed and nodded and pirrouetted their assent, Vag tried to pull himself together...
Washington newsmen figured last week that Pearl Harbor's ill bombing blew them some good. Captain Leland Pearson Lovette, whose destroyer was sunk at Pearl Harbor, was appointed assistant to Rear Admiral Hepburn, Chief of Navy Public Relations. He succeeds popular Commander Robert ("Bob") Berry, who will shortly return to active sea duty. "Leon" Lovette, a big, amiable Tennessean, headed Navy's Press Section from 1937 to 1940, has a lot of Washington newspaper friends to show...